THE Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen O. A. Ihejirika, on Friday gave details of the exchange of fire between soldiers and members of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, saying the army killed about 50 members of the sect while three soldiers died in the exchange of gun fire. The police authorities also confirmed that Boko Haram […]
Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Azubuike Ihejirika File copy The Federal Government has taken more measures to confront head-on the threat to peace and security in the country by Boko Haram, the militant Islamic sect that has been waging a terror campaign on Nigeria since 2009. SATURDAY PUNCH learnt on Friday in […]
Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika The Nigerian Army has established a special squad to combat the menace of Boko Haram. The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, who spoke at a two-day security awareness workshop organised by the Nigerian army on Wednesday, said the suicide attacks […]
Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – Dec. 20, 2011 – The ‘white wedding’ between Chinedu Ikedieze, (a.k.a Aki), and his heartthrob Nneoma Nwajah on December 9, 2011 was front page news for a number of newspapers, including the Sun and the Vanguard. True, some newspapers made it front page news for the wrong reason: to […]
Saratu (Inset: Uwagbe and Saratu) Saratu, the wife of a retired Brigadier-General, Umar Uwagbe, who was allegedly murdered by men he leased a piece of land to, has regretted that her husband’s generosity “backfired”. Uwagbe had leased the land to his neighbour, Samuel Sosu, for commercial farming but due to breach […]
By EVELYN USMAN ABEOKUTA—Nigerian Air Force personnel from Logistics Command, Ikeja, Lagos, yesterday, engaged a 12-man robbery gang operating on Ota/Idiriko Road, Ogun State, in a shoot-out and foiled the gang’s attempt to snatch vehicles. The bandits reportedly stormed the ever-busy road in two unmarked vehicles which they used to block the road. Thereafter, they […]
A prosecution witness in the on-going trial of the six police officers suspected to have killed the leader of the Boko Haram Islamic sect, Mohammed Yusuf, Colonel Benjamin Ahamotu yesterday told the Federal High Court that killing of members of the sect was a legitimate duty. Ahamotu who led the army troop that arrested Yusuf […]
By Dayo Johnson and Gabriel Enogholase No fewer than 14 persons including three soldiers were killed in two separate accidents yesterday. The soldiers were trapped and burnt to death in an auto crash at Aiyegunle, Oka-Akoko, near Owo, Ondo State alongside five students of a military school and two others. In the other accident which […]
The Army High Command yesterday disclosed that the dreaded Boko Haram Islamic fundamentalists group killed 140 people in 138 attacks carried out between the year 2010 and 2011. This is coming at a time the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, said that the sect was a product of bad governance and […]
THERE was security alert in the Niger Delta, on Monday, following a threat by a group of ex-militants to bomb oil facilities in the region in response to the Federal Government’s alleged failure to address some issues that border on their welfare. Heavily armed security agents posted to oil facilities were positioned to ward off […]
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